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"And Isaac brought her into his jnother s tent and took Rebecca, and 
she became his wife ; and he loved her^ 



COPYRIGHT 1889. 
BY REV. DWIGHT WILLIAMS. 



JOURNAL PRINT, SYRACUSE, N. V 



The Qrid^l in Gder), 



^S if the stars with bells were hung, 
x\iid by the angels sweetly rung ; 
So had creation's matin chime 
Pealed out upon the birth of time ; 
And as it died in peace away 
Beyond the portals of the day, 
Love came herself with crowns of flowers. 
And stood in Eden's lovely bowers, 
And built an altar and a throne. 
To rule 
A kingdom of her own, 
And hold her palace Beautiful. 



II 



^ H, this was Eden's bridal blest, 
And One was there a loving Guest, 
Who spake his benediction sweet 
So oft o'er his own work complete ; 
His last was now, two souls in form 
From his own hand of beauty warm 
A bridal in the garden bowers, 
With veils of beauty in the flowers ;- 
Earth never saw a scene so fair 
As this ; 
Did angels throng the stair 
That rose above the Eden bliss ? 



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^H, who could speak *' Amen "but he 
Who brought the bride so fair to see, 
And gave to him whose regal soul 
Was charged with earth and its control ; 
The language of the air was love, 
And blessings fell from heights above, 
And his the greatest rapture who 
Looked on his work, and only knew 
The golden tides of blessedness 
Which long 
Should sweep through time, and bless 
The world with words of love and song. 



When far outside the gate, alas, 
The two were sad, and could not pass 
The wall again where they were wed, 
Still hand in hand they wandered ; 
And love in tears was still the same, 
One altar theirs with holy flame. 
And even he their w^ondrous guest 
Received their prayer in grief confessed, 
And left a rapture in their pain, 
That held 
Their hearts, a glad refrain, 
A pledge of woe and sin dispelled. 



-A H, he who smiled in Eden's bowers, 
And spoke his blessing mid the flowers 
Hath never scorned Love's holy shrine ; 
Did not his royal Son make wine, 
And grace himself a marriage feast, 
The faaie of which hath never ceased ? 
While Mary smiled upon the bride 
And all the place w^as beautified ; 
How blessed there to be a guest, 
They said 
That day ; with love confessed 
In Jesus' sight, the tw^ain were wed. 



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g WEET wedding bells, they ring afar ; 
Ye love them, all, ye cannot bar 
The music from your hearts, ah why ? 
It is a heaven-born melody; 
Ye never hear the golden chime. 
Ye never list in measured time 
The organ's tone that thrills the scene. 
But nearer heaven ye have been, 
For out of Eden do ye know 
The bliss 
Hath come through ages slow, 
And lives to bless to gladden this. 



5ZII 

Q wedding bells of faded years, 
More holy yet, through storms of tears, 
We listen to your echoes borne 
Like dreams that bless the early morn, 
And still ye ring, and laughing eyes 
Are gone, as stars seek other skies ; 
But Eden sends its beauty down, 
And drops on youthful brows its ci'own ; 
And still we bless the wedding bells. 
And hold 
The promise, as it tells 
Of Eden new in Gates of Gold. 



Lot 69 




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